Sr Network Engineer

At American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, we think of ourselves as The Financial Dignity Company. Our policyholders work with independent agents, banks and broker-dealers through our wholly-owned operating subsidiaries, to choose one of our leading annuity products best suited for their personal needs to create financial dignity in retirement. We remain steadfast in our commitment to quality products, excellent customer service, integrity, safety and delivering on our promises to our policyholders. Our success comes from hiring people who embody the beliefs that drive our unique, energetic, fast-paced and caring culture of collaboration, ownership and innovation.

We currently fund over half a million retirements nationwide, and have been headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, for over twenty-five years, with satellite offices opened in early 2023 in Charlotte, NC, and New York, NY.

GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

The Senior Network Engineer analyzes, plans, implements, maintains, troubleshoots and enhances large complex systems or networks. These may consist of a combination that include virtual environments, desktops, public/private cloud networks, LANS, WANs, wireless, internet, intranet and the physical and logical components that integrate these systems together as an enterprise networking backbone.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with network team to design, implement, and administrate network infrastructure.
• Establishes networking environment by installing, configuring, testing and documenting the equipment/network systems according to the design and specifications.
• Leads the performance of day-to-day networking tasks to ensure network reliability, availability, and serviceability within minimal interruption.
• Provides technical support, responds to tickets from the users, analyzes and solves reported network problems.
• Leads in the configuration of firewall security policy configuration.
• Leads network technology upgrade or expansion projects, including installation of hardware, software, and integration testing, as well as coordinating these activities without disturbing function of other systems.
• Leads in the development and production of complex documentation for installation, network topology, and troubleshooting of communications hardware or software.
• Provides on-call networking technical support.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to Network Engineers.
• Performs other related work as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; plus eight (8) years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience
• In depth experience with Palo Alto, Aruba and Cisco systems
• Experience with AWS network infrastructure

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS:

• Maintain professional level certifications in respective network technologies.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Prior network engineer experience.
• Advanced knowledge of networking concepts to include BGP routing.
• Proven experience and success with cloud networking as well as on-prem LAN, WAN, WLAN, and WWAN design and implementation.
• Attention to detail and excellent critical thinking, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience with network capacity planning, network security principles, and general network management best practices.
• Familiarity with network analysis tools including SolarWinds and packet capture.
• Initiative and innovation in improving work processes.
• Ability to work successfully with a team and handle pressure while meeting deadlines.